DESIGNER OF BOOKS

As a freelance designer with 25 years of book design experience, Vicky Shea closely collaborates with publishers, private entities, editorial teams, printers, and authors to deliver high-quality books. She has successfully designed and laid out hundreds of books, specializing in nonfiction coffee table and corporate history books, cookbooks, guidebooks, how-to gardening and home improvement books, travel books, gift books, and children’s books. She has extensive experience with the printing process, having worked on press in the US and overseas with full color printing, file management, and preflight file preparation. She can manage complex color printing processes and troubleshoot production issues while maintaining a high level of detail. Vicky’s work has won numerous Benjamin Franklin awards and a PubWest Design award. She regularly attends publishing conferences and Adobe Max/Creative Pro to stay current in design trends and publishing software.

•  Adobe Creative Cloud: InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop daily
• Books and multi-page document layout design and production for covers and interiors from start to print ready files
• Experience designing annual reports, ads, social media content, collateral pieces, logos and more
• Extensive pre-press and production knowledge of the 4-color process and printing
• Abundant experience on press at print location for a variety of printers in the US and internationally
• Extensive photo research on internet and on site at libraries, museums and private collections
• Qualified and comfortable working with freelance photographers, illustrators, libraries, museums and private collectors
• Collaborator and project management experience
• Ability to bring projects on deadline, within budget
• Team player, dedicated and passionate to collaborate and create high quality work
• InDesign multi-page expert setting up: preference presets, hyphenation presets, master and parent pages, margin and column guides, paragraph and character styles, object styles, baseline grid, grep for widow/orphans/grunts, preflight settings for CMYK, single page documents or facing pages, CC Libraries

Arizona Highways, becker&mayer! Books, Beckon Books, Blue Sneaker Press, Broad Books Press, Bona Fide Books, Capen Publishing Company, Chalice Press, Cider Mill Press, Consumer Reports, Conundrum Press, Countryman Press, Entrepreneur Press, Essex Publishing Group, Favorite Recipes Press, Girl Friday Productions, Glen Canyon Conservacy, Globe Pequot Press, Grand Canyon Assoc., Greenwich Publishing, Historic Hospitality Books, Klutz, Mint Editions, Mount Rushmore Society, Plum Street Publisher, Rodale, Rowman & Littlefield, Sourcebooks, Southwestern Publishing House, Sterling Publishing, Storey Publishing, Taunton Press, Tehabi Books, and West Margin Press.